Commissioner of Central Excise Versus Lalit Steel and Agro Industries (HC of Punjab & Haryana)

On further appeal by the respondent-dealer who issued invoices, the Tribunal vide order dated 16.9.2009, reduced the penalty to 10% taking into account that 100% penalty had already been levied on the assessee who claimed Cenvat Credit wrongly. 100% penalty has already been levied on the assessee wrongly claiming the benefit of Cenvat Credit, the view taken by Tribunal in reducing penalty in the case of the respondent cannot be said to be perverse so as to hold that a substantial question of law arises. IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH  C.M. No. 16102-CII of 2010 and CEA ...